Steve Jobs: Think Different – Brandon Hurst

Few people have changed the course of technology and culture in recent years more than Steve Jobs. Since then he has helped to design and popularise a series of cutting-edge devices and software developments: the Macintosh; the graphical user interface behind Windows and almost every other operating system; the iMac; the massively successful iPod, iTunes, iPhone and iPad.

It is not just the technology industries that Steve changed: it is our very culture, down to the way we communicate and even relate to one another.

Steve was an iconic and brilliant man, but he was also widely acknowledged to be an extremely difficult person to work with.

The complex mass of contradictions embodied in Steve Jobs is not easily explained or reduced to a set of simple answers. To pretend otherwise is both inaccurate and does a disservice to the memory of one of the most influential figures of our time. Instead, it seems better simply to tell his story and leave it at that.